Going Deep on Behavior and Well Being with Angela Duckworth, Dreme Flynt and Will McQuiston

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This is one of my favorite groupings of guests ever. Sometimes the chemistry is just so right. For the last episode of the 10-part series on Well Being, I knew we had to talk about the psychology of making change. For that, we needed the leadership of Angela Duckworth, who wrote Grit and is always thinking and rethinking how we understand ourselves. She’s been a guest before and her lab is devoted to surfacing actionable advice for parents and teachers based on science. Joining us are two friends of the show: Fulbright scholar and entrepreneur Dreme Flynt and a kid from Prattville, AL who is about graduate from Harvard and move to Arkansas to work as an economist at Walmart Will McQuiston. Dreme and Will bring real world challenges to the conversation about habit formation. You can watch any episode of this series any time at PBS.org/kelly. You can receive our weekly takeaways here. And please be in touch. Emails help us shape our show. We read everything that comes in to hello@kellycorrigan.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and this week I'm
0:06.3	wondering how change really happens. This is the 10th in a 10-part series on
0:11.5	well-being and this final conversation is with Angela Duckworth
0:15.4	who is most famous for her book called Grit. She runs something called the
0:19.4	Character Lab where she studies behavioral psychology,
0:23.2	and she is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
0:27.0	Joining us for this conversation
0:28.9	are two young people who have been on the show before.
0:31.8	Dream Flint, who is a Fulbright scholar and educator and
0:35.3	an entrepreneur, and Will McQuiston, who is about to graduate from Harvard after a very
0:41.7	rough childhood in Prattville, Alabama.
0:44.8	Together, the four of us talk about behavior change
0:48.8	and putting ourselves into contexts
0:51.7	that make good choices the easiest choices to make.
0:56.0	We'll be right back. Welcome back to Kelly Corgan Wonders. I have three guests today talking about
1:16.6	behavior change, willpower, and context. The first is Dr. Angela Duckworth.
1:23.0	She is most famous for her book,
1:25.0	Grit, a number one New York Times bestseller.
1:28.0	She's also a professor at the University of Pennsylvania
1:30.0	and a MacArthur fellow.
1:32.0	The second guest is Fulbright scholar. and a MacArthur fellow.
1:32.7	The second guest is Fulbright scholar, CEO, and founder of the chair, Dream Flint.
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